Angel Face: Sex, Murder, and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox [The movie tie-in to The Face of an Angel]

by Barbie Latza Nadeau

Overview

Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau -- who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense -- describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780991247639
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	03/03/2015
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	322 KB
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

As a senior writer for the Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau provided weekly reports on the Amanda Knox case and trial throughout 2008 and 2009. She is also a regular contributor to Newsweek and a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC. A fourteen-year resident of Rome, she has reported from Italy on everything from natural disasters to papal investitures.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tina Brown yii

A Note on the Sources xiii

Cast of Characters: First Trial xvii

1 "Perugia Is Not for the Weak" 1

2 "Here Is the List of People I've Had Sex With" 21

3 "I Kicked the Door in, and Then I Heard a Scream" 41

4 "Everyone Cried Except Amanda and Raffaele" 59

5 "The Worst Part Was I Still Couldn't Remember Exactly What I Had Been Doing" 79

6 "I Am Not the One Who Took Her Life. But I Didn't Save Her" 101

7 "DNA Doesn't Fly" 121

8 "She Is Not Amanda the Ripper, She Is the Amelie of Seattle" 145

9 "Deep Down, Curt Knows. He Knows the Truth"

10 "You Try to Be Persuasive but Not Insulting" 191

Epilogue 203

Acknowledgments 231